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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? In the United States, a patent application must be filed no later than one year from the date the invention is first described in a publication, used publicly, or placed on sale ; otherwise, any right to a patent will be lost. (By 2013, the U.S.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start.

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Just 138 million video views happen in the United States despite a population of 329 million (0.42 of all DailyMotion traffic comes from the United States.). billion videos per month.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. I started my own practice, City Facial Plastics, because I wanted to be free of the corporate machine that is modern medicine and healthcare in the United States.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

Ramanan Raghavendran, Managing Partner at Amasia , explains how they’re managing their processes: “At Amasia, our distributed presence on both sides of the Pacific mandates the use of technology to be effective, timely and coordinated. For bottom-up exercises, Statista and the United States Census Bureau are frequently used resources.